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Enjoy and explore your creativity through writing and drawing by joining this School One class. Led by visual artist Monica Shinn and creative writer Eve Kerrigan, this nine-week class will introduce students to writing techniques, art elements and prompts designed to cross disciplines. This class will culminate in an exhibition and celebration of students' work.

School One's Winter Open Campus (Wed. from 9-10:15 a.m.) is a great way to get to know our unique community, curriculum, faculty and students. Call us for more information or to sign up!Register for Open Campus

1st Person

“My son has matched and exceeded every challenge placed in his path at School One. He has grown into a thoughtful, caring and independent adolescent. I am so very grateful that his teachers have recognized this and set even loftier markers for him. I don't approve of his being 16 years old at all, but I am overjoyed that he has found a new family and is flourishing at School One.”

1st Person

“My son Quinn blossomed in the small classes and accepting nature of the place: he participated actively in his classes, he learned to write well and do calculus, he was part of the school's very participatory governance system and he made great friends. He now attends a great college. Quinn says that School One is ‘awesome,’ and I agree.”

1st Person

“There is so much to love about School One: the stimulating courses, the small class sizes, the respectful community, the student murals in the hallways. But what I like best is the thing that’s hardest to describe. It’s the School One effect. Something in the atmosphere inspires creativity, curiosity, and authenticity; it has the power to transform lives. Our students love coming to school because they can be (and become) who they really are.”

1st Person

“I always say I’d do anything for School One, and that’s because School One would – and did – do everything for us. My son flourished there as a leader, as an intellect and as an artist. He applied to and was accepted at one of the best art schools in the country. At School One, he was challenged, respected and treated like an adult who was responsible for his own achievement.”

1st Person

“I love the community at School One. My friend came to school with me one day and I was driving her home and she said, ‘Wow, your school is great. Everyone talked to me! It made me feel really welcome.’ And I was just so proud because, yeah, that’s my school!”

Anna Russell '12

1st Person

“I look forward to coming to School One just about every day because I know there will be humor, intellectual stimulation, high spirits and visible academic and social progress in a population that is diverse in every possible way.”

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“School One represents innovation in education. In 1982, long before there was Teach for America, I was allowed to become a math teacher and advisor there. The next five years taught me that ‘every flower blooms at its own rate,’ and to appreciate Mark Twain's admonition, ‘Don't let your schooling interfere with your education.’“

Atiba Mbiwan

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"My experience at School One was phenomenal. I loved the teachers and the variety of students, who were in a creative, free-thinking mode. I loved the freedom to explore all kinds of things, and that the teachers treated us like equals. There was a sense of 'we're all adults here,' and that democratic approach was very appealing to me."

VideOne

Check out this video our 2010 alums Evan Krueger and Liam Dailey made as an independent project during their senior year. Evan, who directed, is now studying at the Rochester Institute of Technology and Liam, who composed and performed the music, is at Bennington College.